Re: installing a printer being user
- From: Walter Mautner <leafnewsnode.20.eatallspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:38:54 +0200
pink0.pallino@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Our lab has a windows 2k3 server that shares printers. Windows usersYou may make your users memberd of "lpadmin" or similar group.
have no problems and they can install such shared printer and
credentials are saved in their "user space"
Under Linux, is it possible that a standard user can install a shared
printer and the credentials are saved in his userspace instead of
standard files, such as printers.conf for CUPS?
Macosx users can install printers, but username/password are saved
(with CUPS) inside printers.conf, in cleartext.
I know that this file is well protected, but I think that it's not nice
if root can read everyone's password.
I partially solved the problem using a "service" account, for printer
only, but it's unuseful if I need to track page counts..
However, unix printing is usually done by direct-tcp, either to networked
printers (jetdirect or similar cards/printservers) or you or your admin may
want to enable "print services for unix" on the w2k3 box, which gives a
simple lpd server with queue names that match shared printer names.
No need for storing smb credentials then.
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